After the retaking of the Bastille on 18 March by a mass of 120,000 people, the Left Front struck another blow on Tuesday evening. Some 23,000 people attended presidential candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon's meeting in Lille . 15,000 inside the packed-out-->

some one hundred riot police officers intervened to disperse about thirty people who were trying to hold a demonstration in memory of Mohammed Merah, the man behind a series of shootings in Toulouse. Most wore illegal burqas.

The suspect in the attacks was described as 24 years old, of French descent from Toulouse with an Algerian mother, who had trained in camps on the Afghanistan-Pakistan border and proclaimed al-Qaida ties. The other suspect was described as his brother

It's not surprising that women don't play as large a role as men in the telling of history. But a new study in France shows just how small: less than four percent of the figures given their own biographies in French history books are women.

A French court on Thursday fined a Muslim woman 120 euros ($164) for wearing a full-face veil in public, prompting the single mother of three to vow an appeal to the European Court of Human Rights to get France to overturn its burqa ban.

For many gay and lesbian young people in France, Le Refuge is a lifesaver -- literally. Since 2003, the organization has helped hundreds of desperate youths, most of them from Muslim families, who have been rejected by their families and forced onto the s

Wearing a burka in public is set to become illegal across France after senators passed a nationwide ban. The country's upper house voted by 246 votes to one in favour of the measure, although there were a number of abstentions.

France continues to debate on whether to ban from public places the burqa and its Arab equivalent, the niqab, the full head-to-toe Islamic veil. Opponents of the burqa view it as an open door to radical Islam, an attack on gender equality and other French

Actor Johnny Depp has vowed never to raise his child in the U.S. - branding the country a truly "frightening" place. He currently lives with his wife, actress/model Vanessa Paradis, and two children in rural France.

French police today arrested the mother of three newborn babies after their decomposing bodies were found in a suitcase and a box at her home in the Alpine city of Albertville. The 36-year-old woman told police she had given birth to the babies on her own

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